How to activate BiciMAD Go in the BiciMAD bike application

One day late, but the BiciMAD application already allows you to use the new electric bicycles that do not need a station for this service. They are the BiciMAD Go, and their advantage over the usual service is that you can find them and leave them almost anywhere (as long as they comply with the sustainable mobility ordinance). . You do not depend on seasons and, therefore, you can take it to the door of your house. Something that allows you to use them outside of the M30, for example.Although there are some points you should know.

As soon as the option is operational, we will inform you.

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How to activate BiciMAD Go in the app

To be able to take one of these bikes you will need the BiciMAD application. Although the service was supposed to officially launch on September 1st, it was not until today when the application was updated to welcome the new bikes without a stationAnd you need to activate this feature to start using them.

Therefore, the most important thing is that you go to the Google Play Store or the App Store if you have an iPhone, and download the most up-to-date version of BiciMAD. It includes support for the BiciMAD Go, as well as tweaks to the design of the application that we will discuss later.

Once you have the latest version of the application, click on the upper left corner to display the menu. This will launch a side menu with a new design and new features. Among them is activate BiciMAD Go Click on this option to enter a new screen where you can confirm your phone number to receive an activation code. Check the boxes for terms of use and privacy policy and click on the Send SMS button. With this you will receiveyou will receive a code in a message to activate the service by associating it with your account Of course, in our tests the message took a few seconds to arrive. When you enter the numeric code, the BiciMAD Go service will be ready to use in the application.

How to take a bike BiciMAD Go

It is mandatory to have the updated application and the BiciMAD Go function activated to be able to get rolling. Once you have done this you just have to search for one of these bikes, which you can do directly in the app thanks to the map and the Bikes tab. These new bikes without a station are marked on the map with their own icon and their number In addition, you can click on any of these icons to make sure it is a bike BiciMAD Go and know your location and current charge level.

Once you have approached one of these bikes you must scan the QR code of its chassis with the application. You can do it with the scanner icon (central app icon) or from the Scan QR button that appears when you click on the information. With this, the rear wheel lock of this type of bicycle is deactivated to start rolling.

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Once you finish the journey, either at a BiciMAD station or at a safe point on the street, you must finish the race manually locking the rear wheel. In addition, you must confirm that the ride has ended in the application. With this the process will be finished. Keep in mind that, in addition to being on the street, BiciMAD Go bicycles can also be left parked at a fixed station Although in this case you must also remember the lock .

BiciMAD Go prices

The cost of BiciMAD Go is determined by minutes of use. Thus, the service charges 19 cents per minuteA cost that equates the service to that seen in others such as Zity electric cars. Of course, there is a special discount if you leave these bicycles at the station instead of on the street. Thus, each journey that ends at the station will reduce the total cost by 50%. A pricing that has raised blisters among some users of social networks.

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If you are a regular BiciMAD user, you can use the new bicycles with the same balance and cost as long as you pick them up from one station and leave them at another. That is, if you use them like the usual BiciMAD bicycles. Of course, keep in mind that you can leave the BiciMAD Go next to a station if there are no free anchorages when you arrive at one In these cases the rates are:

• First 30 minutes: 50 cents
• From the second to fourth fractions of 30 minutes: 60 cents
• Following fractions of 60 minutes: 4 euros
• Bonuses for leaving a bike in a station with few bikes, for reserving an anchorage, for taking a bike in a full station: -10 cents.

If you use the BiciMAD Go service without being a BiciMAD user, prices increase significantly. Even if you use these bikes from station to station. In this case, without having paid the annual membership, the costs are as follows:

• First hour or fraction: 2 euros
• Following fractions of 60 minutes: 4 euros
• Bonuses: -10 cents

News in the BiciMAD application

If you are a regular BiciMAD user you will notice some important new features when updating the mobile application. And it's not just the BiciMAD Go activation function, there are also tweaks in the visual aspect.

The first can be seen on the menu screen, which is now only displayed on the side. Here you can see the balance you have left in your account, the available services integrated into BiciMAD and the possibility of accessing your profile.

The design has also changed in the map icons, which are now more minimalist and represent not only the stations, bikes and anchorages , if not the new BiciMAD Go vehicles with the icon of a bicycle. Along with this, it has opted to reduce lines and buttons in the rest of the sections. You will see the travel history with simpler icons and content that differs only from the background by color and not by lines or boxes.

In short, a rather nice face cleaning to update and welcome the BiciMAD Go service. Although it does not change anything functionally.